The fights began. Hiei easily won in his group, and so did Kurama in his. Hiei rejoined Yukina at the viewing platform to watch Hina fight in her group once he was done. "Do you think she'll be okay?" Yukina asked him.
"I don't know her fighting capabilities," he replied.
"I think she'll fair well," Mukuro said as she snuck up from behind them without any kind of mask on.
Hiei asked, "Why?"
She answered, "It looks like Hina's an A class demon. Some more training and she'll be an S class. She could even get stronger than you."
Hiei said as he looked back at the screen, "You can tell she's an A class from here?"
She explained, "I've spent centuries sizing up demons, so yes, I can."
In the arena, Hina was standing in she looked around at the dozens of others that had been placed in there with her. She made sure she didn't know anyone, which she didn't. "Begin!" an announcement from the flying recorders said.
She took out her hairpiece and revealed the hidden blades. As everyone started attacking each other she threw it through the air like a boomerang and it sliced through everyone in sight in a matter of seconds, killing them all instantly, before returning to her hand. "Alright!" she said happily as she looked at all of the dead bodies.
She put her hairpiece back in as Koto announced, "And winner of group 30 by death is Hina!"
Yukina touched her hairpiece and said, "I wonder if I can get my star to do that."
"I think she enhanced it," Hiei said as he looked at the screen.
Mukuro said, "Impressive, it moves fast and it's small so it's hard to see. You two come from powerful people."
"Thank you?" Yukina said awkwardly.
"Don't you have a match to get to?" Hiei asked.
"Didn't you hear?" she asked, "Everyone who was put in my group chickened out and forfeited so they wouldn't have to fight me. I won by default." She frowned at the sound of that.
Yukina said, "They're showing Kunsei's group."
They all watched intently as Koto told them to begin. Everyone turned and faced Kunsei in the middle of the ring, almost forming a circle around him. "Interesting," Mukuro said.
"If he doesn't do something they're all going to gang up on him," Yukina said nervously.
Is he planning something? Hiei thought.
In a flash Kunsei powered up and exploded with fire so intense and powerful everyone was incinerated in seconds, including the camera. The audience members covered their eyes from the blinding light, but Yukina and Hiei stared intently. They didn't even need the screen. They could see and feel the power from where they were standing. Everything that was on the arena, all trees and plantlife, were gone by the time Kunsei was done.
"He can do all of that with just his fire?" Hiei asked in shock.
"Show off," Mukuro replied.
The tournament frantically brought over new cameras and zoomed in to show a smug smile on Kunsei's face as he was named the winner. Hiei thought to himself, With that kind of display of power he should have taken over a part of demon world and named himself king somewhere along the way, but he hasn't for some reason. I wonder why.
Hina asked in the hallway of the entrance, "Did you really have to incinerate all of them?"
"You killed everyone in your group too," Kunsei pointed out, "I was just having some fun." They walked back to where Hiei, Yukina, and Mukuro were standing on the second deck. "What are you doing here?" Kunsei asked Mukuro.
"Just watching everyone get incinerated," she replied, "that's all."
Hina said, "I've been matched with a demon named Touya, I wonder who that is." She looked at the paring in front of her.
"Master of ice," Hiei said as he remembered the hell Kurama went through in the dark tournament.
"Sounds like a ninja," Kunsei said, "I was beginning to wonder what happened to them. Be careful, okay."
Yusuke came over the speakers and explained to everyone he'd rather not see deaths on the battlefield today so they can live to fight the next time someone makes a new tournament.
"Are you going to follow along with that?" Hina asked as she turned to Kunsei.
"I'll do whatever I want to my enemies," Kunsei replied.
The first fight they watched was Kurama vs. Kunsei. As they stood across from each other in the arena Kurama said, "I assure you, this won't go the same way it did back then."
"I remember," Kunsei replied, "and I don't want it to either. I was hoping you'd offer more of a challenge this time." Kurama glared at him.
Kurama He was in the forest, walking away from a river when he stumbled upon a young fire demon walking through. He didn't pay him much attention, and the fire demon didn't like that. "Who are you?" he demanded, "You seem tough, but are you really?"
"Listen child," Kurama said, "I don't have the paitence to deal with you."
The fire demon fired up and replied, "I think you do. My name's Kunsei, what's yours."
"Yoko Kurama," he answered as he glared at him. He took out his rose whip which was burned in Kunsei's flames easily.
Kunsei then created a tunnel out of fire and made it head straight for Kurama. He covered himself with his arm and was severly burned. He transformed into his fox form almost unwillingly and started crying out in pain. "Pathetic," Kunsei said, and picked him up by the scruff of his neck, "and I thought the legendary Yoko Kurama was supposed to be tougher than that. You're not even worth killing." He threw Kurama at a tree and walked away.
To be honest, Kunsei thought, I hate that memory. I was so arrogant and rude. If I could punch my past self in the face I would. "So, you think you can win this time? I will admit, outsmarting a fox isn't easy so I'll have to overpower you instead." Kurama kept glaring at him.
